All families having children/teens in the Faith Formation Program should have received registration forms in the mail or by e-mail.
Faith Formation sessions will be held as follows:
- Levels K-5
- Sunday – 9:15-10:30am at Sacred Heart Church
- Wednesday – 4:30-5:45pm at St. Maurice Church
- Levels 6-8
- Sunday – 6:15-7:30pm at Sacred Heart Church
- Wednesday – 6:30-7:45pm at St. Maurice Church
- Confirmation Preparation (High School Level)
- All Confirmation Preparation sessions for Sacred Heart Church and St. Maurice Church will be combined
- at Sacred Heart Church on Sunday – 6:15-7:30pm
- followed by Youth Group 7:30-8:45pm.
Parish families are free to choose to attend sessions at either Sacred Heart Church or St. Maurice Church (exception – Confirmation Prep and Youth Group). You do not have to be a parishioner at a specific parish in order to attend Faith Formation sessions there, however, you must be a parishioner of either one of the parishes.
Registration fees are as follows:
- $50 for the first child/teen in your family
- $45 for the second child/teen in your family
- $115 Maximum fee per family
- $60 for Confirmation Preparation
If you are new to the parish or will have a child/teen enrolling for the first time in the Faith Formation program or need more information, please contact Rella (860-875-4563) or (rella@sacredheartchurch.net).
Sacred Heart Church in Vernon is yoked to Saint Maurice Parish in Bolton, so this year, our parishes are coming together to celebrate the triduum of Holy Thursday, Good Friday and the Easter Vigil in the same place! This year, our combined celebration will be at Sacred Heart in Vernon.
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Receive the Sacrament of Reconciliation in a communal celebration at Sacred Heart on Tuesday, March 23 at 7pm.
Prayer, song, examination of conscience, reflection, individual confession, absolution and thanksgiving in a painless setting. Whether you receive the Sacrament of Reconciliation regularly or rarely – come.
Let us receive the announcement of Lent with joy!
For if our forefather Adam had kept the fast,
We would not have been deprived of paradise.
O Lord, who took flesh from the Virgin
in the fullness of time,
Call me back and restore me to Eden!
– Byzantine Vespers
We begin our celebration of Lent with the imposition of ashes on
- Wednesday at Noon
- Wednesday at 5:30pm
You thumbed grit
into my furrowed brow,
marking me
with the sign of mortality,
the dust of last year’s palms.
The cross you traced
seared, smudged skin,
and I recalled other ashes
etched
into my heart
by those who love too little
or not at all.
– Elizabeth-Anne Vanek in Extraordinary Time
(Ash Wednesday is a day of fast and abstinence)
Our Lenten observances for this year begin on February 25, 2009, Ash Wednesday.
Services include
- Mass with Distribution of Ashes at 9am,
- Liturgy of the Word with Distribution of Ashes at 4pm (convenient for our faith formation students) and
- Liturgy of the Word with Distribution of Ashes at 7pm.
For Catholics, Ash Wednesday is a day of fast and abstinence.
We usher in a New Year as we always do: celebrating Mary, the Mother of God at Masses on Wednesday at 5pm and Thursday at 10am.
Sacred Heart’s Pastoral council met with St Maurice’s Parish Council on Tuesday, June 17 at Saint Maurice in Bolton to work on the new Mass schedule. Here are Ernie’s notes from the meeting. If you were at the meeting and would like your notes published, simply send them to Ernie.
Combined Pastoral/Parish Council Meeting
June 17, 2008 7:15pm, Saint Maurice
Name tags were distributed, an attendance sheet was distributed.
Meeting started with prayer. Persons spoke their names.
Father Stan sent apologies from Sr. Elissa – she has bronchitis and laryngitis and sounds like a bass – but Father explained that we will follow her agenda for the evening, which consisted of two questions.
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Two questions were asked:
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Sacred Heart held the first of its Parish Meetings on “Yoking” on June 3, 2008. Here are Rella’s notes from the evening.
Parish Yoking Meetings
Sacred Heart Church – June 3, 2008
Mass Possibilities
• Accommodate early birds with an early Mass
• Accommodate late risers with an evening Mass on Saturday/Sunday
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This weekend we announced that in the very near future the parishes of Sacred Heart, Vernon and Saint Maurice, Bolton will be “yoked” as two separate and independent parishes sharing one common pastor. The full text of the letter from Bishop Cote can be found in this week’s bulletin and we encourage you to read it.
This is new territory for both parishes and there will be questions about what changes yoking will require. One way that we can address these questions is to come together to talk. Two parish meetings have been scheduled so that the members of each parish family can talk with one another, ask questions and voice their thoughts and concerns.
The parish meeting for Sacred Heart will be Tuesday, June 3rd at 7:30pm in Sacred Heart church’s ”fellowship room.” (Saint Maurice’s parish family will be meeting on Wednesday, June 4th at 7:00pm at Saint Maurice church in Bolton.) Please consider participating at these meetings if you are able.
We ask that you please keep the parishioners and priests of Saint Maurice and Sacred Heart in your prayers during this exciting time in our parishes’ development.
